A thread for nothing

[jimmy jazz]

My mom wouldn't let me have a phone until I was 17. Every time I had to contact anyone I had to use a friend's or ask at the school office to use theirs.

My mom is a bit of a technophobe, even to this day.

If I had no credit, which was basically all the time, I'd use the public phone boxes. There used to be fucking loads of them and now hardly any. They stank of piss BTW.

Used to use them for drugs also. Ring him up and name a pub to collect it at

[Lexi Darling]

If I had no credit, which was basically all the time, I'd use the public phone boxes. There used to be fucking loads of them and now hardly any. They stank of piss BTW.

Used to use them for drugs also. Ring him up and name a pub to collect it at

Yeah, I definitely used payphones as well, there was a row of them in the lobby of my local movie theater that I used very frequently. I don't think I've seen one in over a decade.

[Toy Revolver]

Yeah, I definitely used payphones as well, there was a row of them in the lobby of my local movie theater that I used very frequently. I don't think I've seen one in over a decade.

it's a problem

if you're stuck with no phone you're fucked

[Rubber Soul]

No payphones are an inconvenience if you don't have a cell phone. Of course, most of us do these days, but I was slow to get on the bandwagon. Can't say that was fun.

[Lexi Darling]

I saw this and I've never felt more called out.

[Shhon]

[Lexi Darling]

My fiancé texted me this while I was on my work shift yesterday and I laughed so much I got banned from using my phone at the cash register. I'm not even mad.

[jimmy jazz]

[Trollheart]

Here he goes...

In the old days, even having a landline in your house (it was like a mobile, kids, except, well, not mobile) was a big thing. I remember you could see the payphone at the corner from my bedroom and I would watch the queue outside it till it had gone down to one or two people and then leg it down, so that I wouldn't be waiting ages. Course, with my luck the cunt inside it would be on for an hour wittering to his girlfriend. They weren't great places to be - anyone who used one ever felt completely trapped? Like, if someone took it into their head to hammer the door shut you were fucked. Couldn't even break out: that glass was braced with wood panels all over, very hard to smash and even then how would that help?

Then we got our very own landline and we were the cat's pajamas. Everyone of course then called up to use it. No we never charged. I knew I had arrived the day I got a second line in the house just for me, up in my bedroom (cost loads, but the privacy was worth it, and of course I needed it for the internet: back then, you could be connected and if someone picked up the phone downstairs you were gone!) and then at work we started first using pagers and then finally the budget coughed up enough for mobiles, shitty Nokia somethings, hadn't even got a camera or any ringtones. But we were like gangsters with our mobiles. Our favourite: ring someone up and say "guess where I'm calling from?" We had not got a clue.

[Janszoon]

Yesterday, I walked by a woman on the sidewalk who was talking on her cell phone. As I passed, this is the entirety of what I heard her say: "It's one thing to smell it, but to see it? I had to get up. I had to get off the bus."

I don't know if it's better or worse that I'll never know the context.

[jimmy jazz]

Reckon someone pooped on the bus. Has to be.

[Toy Revolver]

Here he goes...

In the old days, even having a landline in your house (it was like a mobile, kids, except, well, not mobile) was a big thing. I remember you could see the payphone at the corner from my bedroom and I would watch the queue outside it till it had gone down to one or two people and then leg it down, so that I wouldn't be waiting ages. Course, with my luck the cunt inside it would be on for an hour wittering to his girlfriend. They weren't great places to be - anyone who used one ever felt completely trapped? Like, if someone took it into their head to hammer the door shut you were fucked. Couldn't even break out: that glass was braced with wood panels all over, very hard to smash and even then how would that help?

Then we got our very own landline and we were the cat's pajamas. Everyone of course then called up to use it. No we never charged. I knew I had arrived the day I got a second line in the house just for me, up in my bedroom (cost loads, but the privacy was worth it, and of course I needed it for the internet: back then, you could be connected and if someone picked up the phone downstairs you were gone!) and then at work we started first using pagers and then finally the budget coughed up enough for mobiles, shitty Nokia somethings, hadn't even got a camera or any ringtones. But we were like gangsters with our mobiles. Our favourite: ring someone up and say "guess where I'm calling from?" We had not got a clue.

are you from ireland or the congo

[Janszoon]

Reckon someone pooped on the bus. Has to be.

Definitely a top three contender in my estimation.

I was once on the subway in the wee hours of the morning and thought it smelled unusually gross. When I got up to exit through the doors I had been sitting next to, I realized why: someone had puked all over the inside of them. I hadn't noticed because I entered through a different set of doors. So it could have been something like that. Or maybe she was talking about smelling urine (the most common scenario on public transit) versus actually watching someone piss in front of you on the bus.

[Trollheart]

are you from ireland or the congo

Yes

[Jwb]

No payphones are an inconvenience if you don't have a cell phone. Of course, mostof us do these days, but I was slow to get on the bandwagon. Can't say that was fun.

lol @ the "bandwagon"

I feel like anyone who is stubborn enough to still not have a smart phone in this day and age has more than earned the inconvenience of being stranded without a phone. Pulling out a flip phone is like the modern equivalent of being amish.